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Global Media Studies: Its Development and Dilemmas by Colin Sparks is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Global Media Studies: Its Development and Dilemmas about?
The world in which communication and media studies grew up is manifestly changing. By general agreement, the sources of the most influential academic thinking about media and communication lie in the USA and western Europe, which have long been home to the universities and journals that dominate the field. The experiences and assumptions of scholars located in the 'advanced global North' have defined the problems investigated and the methods employed to investigate them. This has always meant that the primary concerns of the field were defined by representatives of a small part of the human story. Even in 1950, as the field was beginning to take shape, the combined populations of Europe and North America accounted for only 28.4 percent of the world total. Demographic developments are rendering this concentration even more unrepresentative: today these populations account for around 15.6 percent of the world total and the projection is that by 2050 Europe and North America together will account for 12.5 percent. At the birth of the field, however, the economies of these regions were overwhelmingly dominant, and still today they, together with that of Japan, are larger than those of
Who reads Global Media Studies: Its Development and Dilemmas?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Social Sciences.
- Author
- Colin Sparks
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences